Welcome to the May 28th, 2026 Rental Housing Committee regular meeting.

This meeting is called to order at 6.03 p.m.

But before we do that, I want to.

As the new chair of the rental housing committee, I want to thank the previous chair, Kevin Ma for his excellent work and ability to keep the meeting not only just on time, but be able to do it in record speed.

Don't expect so much from me, at least not at first, but I have a giant to emulate.

Anyway, now I will proceed with roll call.

It appears that all members are present.

Okay.

So now let's go on to the consent calendar.

Item three.

These items will be approved by one motion unless any member of the committee wishes to remove an item for discussion.

The purpose of the consent calendar is for the committee to efficiently and quickly consider routine or administrative business items with one motion.

Public comment will occur after the discussion.

We invite you to submit a speaker card now if you would like to speak on this item during public comment.

Would any member of the committee like to poll an item?

I'm not seeing any.

Okay.

Um I now invite public comments.

In-person public comments will be called to speak first.

Any member of the public wishing to provide virtual comment on this item, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star 9 on your phone.

I've always wanted to say that.

Okay, let's see.

I don't see anybody in the audience here, and I don't see anybody on.

So I guess we'll go on.

Okay, I will now bring the item back for committee action.

A motion to approve the consent calendar should include reading the title of the agenda items 3.1.

Would anyone like to make a motion?

Ah, looks like Kevin Ma has moved.

And Emily.

Okay.

This one?

That okay.

Uh Kevin.

Thank you, Chair.

I move the balance of the consent calendar, that being 3.1, approve the rental housing committee meeting minutes for the meeting of April 23rd, 2026.

All right.

And this motion has been seconded by Vice Chair Emily Statz Hislop.

So now I guess we can go to a vote.

Motion has passed 5-0 unanimously.

All right.

Let's move on to oral communications from the public.

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Speakers are allowed to speak on any topic for up to three minutes during this section.

State law prohibits the committee from acting on non-agenda items.

Would any member of the public like to provide comments on a non-agenda item?

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In person public comments will be called to speak first.

Any member of the public wishing to provide a virtual comment on this item, please click the raise hand button in Zoom or press star 9 on your phone.

So I do not see any members of the public to step up for this.

And I also do not see anybody in the virtual queue.

All right.

So since there are none, we may move on to new business.

Public comment will occur after the presentation item and committee questions.

We invite you to submit a speaker card now.

If you know you would like to speak on this item during public comment.

We will begin with a presentation from staff.

Take it away, staff.

Thank you very much, Chair and members of the rental housing committee.

Um tonight we're going to adopt a resolution approving the fiscal year budget for this coming fiscal year.

This has been discussed in the previous meeting without any submitted uh changes from the rental housing committee, and establishing a rental housing fee and space rental fee for the next fiscal year.

As a background, which we also provided in the last meeting, the rental housing committee has the duty and power to set a budget and the fees as shown in the CSFRE section 1709 and the MHRSO section 46.

In the meantime, the city's finance and administrative services department made a couple of minor changes to the previously presented budget, namely a $3,000 reduction in the transfer to compensated absences for dollar increase in salary benefits, and resulting in a net reduction of expenditures of $2,996.

And in the MHRSO budget, there was an increase of $1,000 in operation, an increase of a thousand dollars for unfunded liability, and an increase of $1,000 for transfer to comp absences and a $3 increase in salary benefits.

So the CSFRA budget looks as follows.

The total revenue is budgeted for two million dollars and $62,622, and total expenses $2.589 for the CSFRA.

This expenses are divided in a couple of main categories operating expenses about $2.3 million.

The city administration about $270,000 and a reserve of $517,000.

And depend dependent on the adopted budget, the rental fee is recommended to be $143 for the annual fee, which comes down to $11.92 per month per unit.

Same for the MHRSO budget.

The total revenue is estimated to come down to $225,000.

And the total expenses at $282,829.

Again, operating expenses makes up the majority of the costs at $282,000 with city administration about $37,000 and the reserves of $56,000.83 cents per month per unit.

The adoption of these budgets provides appropriations for the operation of the CSFRA and the MHRSO.

The CCFRA is a hundred percent cost recovery program and fully funded by fees.

The MHRSO is also a cost recovery program, but it's also supplemented by the city's general fund in an amount of $50,000.

Both budgets will be forwarded to finance and administrative services department for incorporation in the citywide budget process.

So the recommendation for tonight is to adopt a resolution approving the fiscal year 2026-27 budgets for the CSFRA and the MHRSO and establishing a rental housing fee and space rental fee for fiscal year 2026-27 to be read in title only further reading waived.

That's the end of the presentation.

Happy to answer any questions.

All right.

Um we move to questions from the committee members.

Do any of the committee members have questions?

Just a quick reminder for the 1.64 million cost for staffing.

How many FTE is that?

For the C C Free, that is, I think eight.

Okay, any other speakers.

Seems there are no other speakers.

No more questions, so I now invite public comments.

In person public comments will be called to speak first.

Any member of the public wishing to provide virtual comment on this item, please click the raise hand button and zoom or press star nine on your phone.

Seeing no one in the audience and no one on the virtual queue, I will move on to committee deliberations and feedback.

Motion to approve should include reading the following items.

Okay, to adopt a resolution of the rental housing committee of Mountain View approving the fiscal year 2026-27 budgets for the community stabilization and fair rent act and the mobile home rent stabilization ordinance and establishing the rental housing fee and space rental fee for fiscal year 2026-27.

All right.

A motion has been made.

Oh okay.

Uh Kevin Ma.

Thank you, Chair.

I move to adopt a resolution of the Rental Housing Committee to approve the fiscal year 2026-27 budgets of the CSFRA and the MHRSO as presented.

All right.

Okay, the motion has been made.

Second.

And now is seconded by Alex Brown.

Uh let's call for the vote.

This motion passes 50.

And now we can move on to item.

5.2.

Rental housing committee meeting schedule for fiscal year 2026-27.

Public comment will occur after the presentation item and committee questions.

We invite you to submit a speaker card now.

If you know you would like to speak on this item during public comment, we will begin with a presentation from staff.

Thank you again, Chair.

This is a short presentation, and this agenda item as purpose is to adopt a resolution to set the dates for rental housing committee meetings for this coming fiscal year.

In the CSFRA and the MHRSO, it is required for the Rental Housing Committee to hold regular meetings to ensure performance under its duty under the CSFRA and MHRSO.

And for that purpose, the Rental Housing Committee adopts an annual meeting schedule.

Since those are heavy holiday months, and so that will be the third, I think it's the third Thursday of the month, and then in June, we scheduled for the second Thursday of the month.

So the recommendation is for the rental housing committee to deliberate about these days and adopt a resolution to set the dates for the meeting.

This ends the presentation.

Thank you.

Now we move on to questions from committee members.

Are there any committee members who have a question?

Doesn't look like it.

So since there are no questions, I now invite public comments will be called to speak first.

Seeing no one in the audience.

Looks like we do have.

Any member of the public wishing to provide virtual comment on the item, please click the raise hand button zoom or press star and I on the phone.

Is Philip Crosby or is that staff?

Member of the public, but they didn't raise their hand.

Oh, okay.

So they're not commenting.

Okay, thank you.

And so let's see.

We will now then go into committee deliberations and feedback.

Would any member of the committee like to propose a motion?

A motion to approve should include reading the following items to adopt a resolution of the rental housing committee, the city of Mount View setting the dates for the rental housing committee meetings for fiscal year 2026-2027.

And if you do, thank you, Chair.

And it appears we have a seconder, Edie Keating.

Right.

So let's uh call for the vote.

Second.

Okay.

All right.

Okay.

So that passes five zero.

All right.

That moves now.

We move on to item 5.3.

Rental housing committee work plan for fiscal year 2026-2027.

Public comment will occur after the presentation item and committee questions.

We invite you to submit a speaker card now if you know you would like to speak on this item during public comment.

We will begin with a presentation from staff.

Thank you, Chair.

Um, the purpose of this agenda item is to review and provide input on the rental housing committee fiscal year 26-27 work plan.

We provided a tentative schedule for your convenience, um, just like other committees, the rental housing committee uh does set an annual work plan to guide the business of the rental housing committee, uh providing a schedule of recurring and anticipated new items and estimated timelines.

Um it does include items on an edge needed basis, so as appeal hearings and review and discussion or adoption of policies regulations.

It also includes recurring items, just like the budget review, the setting of the annual general adjustments of rent, updates on the CSFRA and MHRZO programs, elections of chairs and vice chair, approval of the calendar and work plan, and approval of contracts, and if needed, the work plan can be modified during the year.

So the proposed work plan, um, I gave um and detailed schedule, which I will not go over, but um, as you can see, the first and second item of each rental housing committee um agenda item will be appeals and regulations as needed, together with some annual overviews of parts of our program, and of course, the monthly overview of workshops and clinics and office hours, and then every half year we provide half-year financials and a half year activity report, which are currently uh scheduled for September and uh February.

And that is the proposed work plan.

So we would like for you to review and provide input uh to staff on this work plan.

Thank you.

All right, get back to the main page.

Okay, so now we move on to questions from committee members.

I see Mark Balch.

Yes, thank you for the preview on the work plan.

Are there any uh policy questions that are that are outstanding that you think might be appropriate to bring to the committee over the coming six to twelve months?

We don't have any urgent policy questions outstanding.

We still want to address the tenant subtenant relationship that can be regulated in regulations.

So that will probably as staff timing allows, come back to you in one of the uh future um meetings.

Thank you.

Okay, recognize Alex.

Thank you, Chair.

Uh the annual review of petitions and processes, given that we have fewer petitions these days.

Are we feeling less constrained by the number of hearing officers we have?

Or is that still something that is a concern that we should address?

Yeah, the concern is alleviated because after we um send out an RFP, we signed on five new uh hearing officers.

Fortunately, we don't have a lot of work for them right now because of the reduced amount of petitions.

Um, but we are uh the resources are there.

That is a better direction to be in.

Yeah.

Uh is there an opportunity to host or meet with them in the work plan?

Is that something that we can add in there?

Of course.

I will jot that down.

Thank you.

I recognize Kevin Ma.

Thank you, Chair.

This is a question to staff.

I recognize that staff is doing ongoing work to revise and update the regulations.

I was wondering what is the general scope of those updates.

Yeah.

Um so we started with chapter one, two, and three, which you guys are already uh approved.

So the next batch is going to mainly be focused on chapter four to eight.

It's mostly a restructuring, making it easier to read.

Um, change the order a little bit of those chapters.

Okay, thank you.

And recognize committee member Keating.

Thank you.

With harassment, um, you know, structure, is that fully implemented or there's more to do there?

Uh that is uh fully implemented.

Um there's forms on the website.

There is a page that explains what the anti-re retaliation and anti-harassment uh regulations contain.

Um we held our first workshop this month.

Um yeah, and there's a form for tenants to fill out and a response form for landlords to fill out.

So I'm happy to hear that.

And if there's a late agenda and that can come to uh the rental housing committee sometime for review just to see how it all worked out.

I would sure we can provide an annual update if that's what you're requesting.

I guess at least a first update, and then maybe ask us if we want an annual update.

Okay, yeah.

Oh, right.

Recognize Vice Chair Hislop.

Um regarding those complaint, would it be possible to have that be a data point on the um the updates form?

So in general, yeah, we are going to look at the uh at the activity report, the half-year activity report.

Uh we're going to revise it and add some other stuff in it as well.

So that the anti um harassment could also be part of that.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Are there any other speakers?

Not seeing any.

Um, I will now invite public comments.

In-person public comments will be called to speak first.

Any member of the public wishing to provide virtual comment on this item, please click the raise hand button on Zoom or plus press star nine on your phone.

So I don't see any in person.

And I don't see any others.

So therefore, we will now go into committee deliberation and feedback.

Um, it says here no motion is required.

So does staff have everything they need from us?

Okay, thank you very much.

And thank you to the committee for your good suggestions.

That brings us to item number six, committee staff announcements and updates.

I will hand this back to staff for some presentations.

Thank you, Chair.

We continue to have our virtual office hours for anyone on Tuesdays from 10 to 12 p.m.

It can be accessed at the link provided.

Staff's working to finalize the workshop schedule for the next fiscal year, and we will present the next batch of workshops at the next RHC meeting, which is June 11th.

And we also continue to host our tenant housing help center on the first and third Thursdays of the month, both in person and virtually from 6 to 8 p.m.

at our office.

Division staff is present as well as community partners such as Project Sentinel, CSA, and CLESPA.

And our landlord office hours are still on Thursdays from one to three and are also hosted at our office at 298 Esquela Avenue.

Earlier this month, we hosted, uh co-hosted with Pacific Clinics for our fifth annual summer kickoff to help the community stay happy, healthy, and housed.

We had 33 local community organizations provide resources and information, and we had about uh 426 community member attendees.

Each table had an art activity for children to create while their guardians learned about the services and resources provided by the organizations.

Various family friendly activities took place throughout the event, including an art class, story time, face painting, chalk drawing contest.

The fire department was there with a fire truck and an ambulance, as well as performers, and we concluded the day with a raffle for STEM-based activity games for children.

The CSF RA also turned 10 years old and MHRSO turned five.

We celebrated with a cake cutting from member Keating, and it was very exciting.

Our booth was very popular at that time.

And this is just a very popular fun event for our division in the community.

It's a highly attended event each year at Rainstorf Park, and we look forward to next year's event.

Any comments or questions from committee?

Well done.

So you're going to go on to now uh expected future item.

What's that?

Oh, okay.

Are there any questions, additional questions or comments from committee members on item 6.1?

Not seeing any.

Let's move on to item 6.2.

Expected future items for RHC meetings.

There's staff presentation.

Sure, we'll do that.

So for Thursday, June 11th, on the agenda, we have the annual contracts to be approved by the Rental Housing Committee for Gold for Gold Farab Lipman and for Project Sentinel for the next fiscal year.

All right.

All right.

Are there any additional comments or announcements from committee members or city staff?

Not seeing any.

I'll move on to item seven adjournment.

The meeting is adjourned at 6 30 p.m.

The next rental housing committee meeting is scheduled to be held on Thursday, June 11th at 6 p.m.

Thank you all.

This has been done with Kevin Ma speed.